The World at 18 000 BP

Pleistocene polyphony - the diversity of human adaptations at the Last Glacial Maximum, Clive Gamble and Olga Soffer living in the Last High Glacial - an interdisciplinary challenge, T.H.van Andel the Last Pleniglacial in the Paris Basin (22,500-14,000 BP), Beatrice Schmider the northwestern European Plain around 18,000 BP, Marcel Otte the last Pleniglacial in the south of France (24,000-14,000 years ago), Jean-Philippe Rigaud and Jan F.Simek the Last Glacial Maximum in Cantabrian Spain - the Solutrean, Lawrence Guy Straus the Portuguese Estremadura at 18,000 BP - the Solutrean, Joao Zilhao continuity and change in Italy at the Last Glacial Maximum, Margherita Mussi the Balkans at 18,000 BP - the view from Epirus, Geoff Bailey and Clive Gamble Germany at 18,000 BP, Gerd-C.Weniger Moravia during the Upper Pleniglacial, Jiri Svoboda Northern Central Europe c 18,000 BP, Janusz K.Kozlowksi the Russian Plain at the Last Glacial Maximum, Olga Soffer environmental conditions and human occupation of northern Eurasia during the Late Valdai, A.A.Velichko and E.I.Kurenkova Central Asia hunter-gatherers at the Last Glacial Maximum, Richard S.Davis China at the last Glacial Maximum, Chen Chun and John W.Olsen Japan and Korea at 18 000 BP, T.E.G.Reynolds and S.C.Kaner new world palaeoecology at the Last Glacial Maximum and the implications for new world prehistory, George C.Frison and Danny N.Walker minitime and megaspace in the Palaeolithic at 18 K and otherwise, H.Martin Wobst.